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Focus on commonalities: Mufti to separatists

‘GOI Must Act On Areas Of Consensus To Set Resolution Process In Motion’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Feb 26: Calling for a lasting solution of the Kashmir issue, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed Saturday said the Government of India must initiate tangible action on the areas of consensus between various stakeholders from the state to set the resolution process More

Kashmir inspired Mideast revolution: Yasin Malik

Separatists Decry ‘Crackdown’ On Youth

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Feb 26: Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik Saturday said that it was the non-violent movement in Kashmir which inspired the revolutions in Middle East countries like Egypt and Tunisia.Malik observed a day-long fast today over the ‘continuing arrests More

Mir urges youth to tap private enterprise

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 26: Recognizing state’s vast potential in private sector, President Democratic Party Nationalist (DPN) and Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir, today said that this vital opportunity can be tapped fully only when state’s youth is convinced to adopt self-employment ventures.
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Separatists must shun rigidity: Interlocutors

‘GOI Ready For Anything Short Of Secession’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Feb 26: Government of India appointed interlocutors on Kashmir Saturday said “anything short of secession” could be discussed for resolving Kashmir. While apparently asking separatists to move away from “rigid position”, the panel said they would submit their report irrespective of whether More

No minor detained under PSA: Omar

‘Ikhwanis Won’t Re-Emerge’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 26: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday said that no minor in Jammu and Kashmir was detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA).Reacting to reports that the Jammu and Kashmir Police were rounding up minors and booking them under PSA, Omar tweeted on the micro-blogging site Twitter More

‘Will recommend ST status to Paharis’

Jammu, Feb 26: Jammu and Kashmir government will be sending a fresh recommendation to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh urging for grant of Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to Pahari speaking people in the state.“A formal letter will be forwarded to the Prime Minister in next few days and centre would More

‘Kashmiris should talk to Delhi in one voice’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 26: State Congress president Prof Saifuddin Soz on Saturday said that Kashmiri leadership including separatists should talk in one voice with New Delhi irrespective of the political dimensions in the state.Addressing a public rally at Cheerpora Lolab in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district More

Soz takes plunge into LC Secy row

PCC Chief To Meet Guv, CM, Micky

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Feb 26: After initial hesitation, Congress has finally decided to take a plunge to resolve the tussle over the appointment of a new secretary to the Legislative Council—which has brought the state government and the deputy chairman of the House at loggerheads.Informed sources told Greater More

LAHDC discards state emblem, flag

Jammu, Feb 26: In a development of far reaching consequence, the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) - constituted in accordance with the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Act - has discarded the state flag and adopted the national emblem - effectively distancing itself from More



  • Opinion

PM's ‘concern'

The problem is not what follows, but what precedes

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

What after June? `July' will be the straight answer. But the way speculations are made on one side and `fingers crossed' on the other, makes one rephrase the question. After three consecutive upheavals More


  • Op-Ed

Doctors in dock

The issue is not about private practice alone

DATELINE SRINAGAR BY ARJIMAND HUSSAIN TALIB

Our doctors are angry and sad this week. A video posted on Facebook has left feathers ruffled. The show of government raids on a few private clinics in Srinagar has ignited a big debate. People are bubbling More



  • Kashmir

Eco-tourism plan in wildlife areas grounded

‘HUMAN INTERFERENCE WILL DISTURB WILD ANIMALS’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Feb 26: The State Government’s ambitious plan to launch eco-tourism in the wildlife protected areas including sanctuaries and wetlands has been grounded with the Wildlife authorities maintaining More


  • Srinagar City

Admin reacts to private clinic raid ‘controversy’

Issues diktat for doctors; Div Com constitutes new team,to personally monitor progress

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Feb 26: Apparently disturbed at the flak received for its recent raids on some private clinics in the City and subsequent leakage of the video-footage, the divisional administration in its bid More



  • Jammu

First batch of ‘riot control’ contingent completes training

PRE-EMPTIVE MEASURES FOR TACKLING UNREST

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Feb 26: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has trained about 400 personnel, including women cops in ‘riot control’   skills, as a pre-emptive measure to tackle any unrest in the valley.  More


  • News in Brief

Jama’at rejects interlocutors’ invite

Srinagar: Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday rejected the interlocutors’ invitation for talks on state’s important issues. “Since Jama’at understands that the talks on the invitation of More


  • Business

‘JKB’s business to cross `One lac cr in next 2 years’

Div Com Kashmir hails JK Bank’s commitment; Bank dedicates 4 more ATMs to public convenience

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 26: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Dr Asgar Samoon said Saturday that J&K Bank by providing hassle free credit delivery schemes was doing a commendable job by serving people with commitment More


  • News

'Worn out transmission lines cost lineman’s arms at Wadoora'

Srinagar, Feb 26: Senior trade union leader and Employees’ Joint Action Committee (Q) president, Abdul Qayoom Wani has expressed concern over the accident in which a PDD lineman, Bashir Ahmad lost his More



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